Thinking of what happened that year, his eyes dimmed slightly.
But he really couldn't explain the reason to Feng Changye.
But my daughter is curious, so I can tell her.
He sighed, "It's certainly not just the Empress Dowager's interference. In fact, this is also the will of the late Emperor."
Zhu Wuhuan looked at him in surprise. "The late emperor asked you to abandon the emperor and support the third prince? Didn't the late emperor dote on the emperor?"
Zhu Huaining turned around and looked at the mountains in the distance.
His eyes were complicated.
"The late emperor's favor for the current emperor is far less than his love for Si Sangsang."
"When Si Sangsang left, he left a letter for the late emperor."
"She was about to leave Daning, so she became fearless and told the late emperor everything about her identity as a time traveler and her purpose in traveling here. She emphasized that the Third Prince would lead to the destruction of the country and urged the late emperor to be cautious in dealing with the Third Prince."
"She thought that if she left this letter, the late emperor would give up on the Third Prince and instead focus on training the First, Second, Fourth, and Fifth Princes."
"She thought that if only one of these four princes could surpass the Third Prince who destroyed the country, her goal of changing the history of Daning would be achieved."
"But she didn't expect the late emperor to be so cruel..."
"After the late emperor learned that Si Sangsang was the one who traveled through time to change the history of Daning, he fell into a state of madness after being abandoned by Si Sangsang."
"He wants to kill the current emperor and Feng Changjin, and then let history follow its original trajectory, let the third prince ascend the throne, and let Daning fall. In this way, perhaps history will repeat itself, and Si Sangsang will once again travel through time and space to Daning to find him..."
"When Si Sangsang travels back to Daning, he will be able to correct all his past mistakes, treat Si Sangsang well from the beginning, keep her heart, and let her stay in Daning and be with him forever..."
"But while he was going crazy, he still retained some rationality. He felt that he couldn't watch the Third Prince destroy Daning, and couldn't let Daning be destroyed in his hands. So he gave up the idea of killing Feng Changye and Feng Changjin."
"His madness is most evident in his attitude towards his biological son, Feng Changye."
"When he missed Si Sangsang, he could pamper Feng Changye to the skies. He even personally brought Feng Changye to me and asked me to be Feng Changye's master and support Feng Changye's ascension to the throne."
"And when he resented Si Sangsang for abandoning him, he could also turn a blind eye to all of Feng Changye's suffering and ignore it."
"In those years, he always knew that the Queen Mother was abusing Feng Changye. He also knew how miserable Feng Changye's life was. But not only did he not feel distressed, but he felt very happy instead—"
"Every time he stood in the distance and quietly watched Feng Changye suffer, he would happily think that this was the disaster that Si Sangsang had brought to his son. The more miserable Feng Changye's life was, the more retribution Si Sangsang would suffer for abandoning her husband and son."
When Zhu Huaining said this, he felt uncomfortable.
The late emperor probably really regarded him as his confidant, so he would always confide these morbid thoughts to him.
But he didn't want to listen.
Every time the late emperor confided in him, he would hear more about Feng Changye being tortured by the empress dowager...
But no matter how heartbroken he was, he could do nothing.
Because the late emperor was the ruler of a country and Feng Changye's biological father, the late emperor wanted Feng Changye to suffer and torture, and to use Feng Changye's pain to avenge Si Sangsang. What could he, an outsider, do?
He also has a family to protect. He cannot go against the emperor for Feng Changye and sacrifice the lives of the Zhu family for his impulsiveness.
He could only ignore Feng Changye's suffering like the previous emperor...
Thinking of this, Zhu Huaining's eyes turned slightly red.
"Now that you know the late emperor's illness and madness, you should understand why he suddenly went back on his word and ordered me to give up teaching Feng Changye and support the Third Prince instead, right?"
"Because Feng Changye is his and Si Sangsang's biological son, he couldn't abuse Feng Changye himself, so he used others to do it."
"Using the Queen Mother to abuse Feng Changye's body and mind, using me to chill Feng Changye's heart, and using the hands of the First and Second Princes to trap Feng Changye in conspiracy and calculation, he lives in fear all day long, and every step is difficult."
"On the one hand, he told Feng Changye that his throne would belong to Feng Changye in the future, showing his fatherly heart. But on the other hand, he coldly allowed the eldest and second princes to harm Feng Changye. As long as Feng Changye was not dead, he would never help him..."
"That kind of cold-eyed observation doesn't feel like facing a son, but rather like facing an enemy..."
Zhu Wuhuan felt his hands and feet go cold as he listened to his father's stories of the past.
That kind of coldness went all the way to the bottom of my heart, piercing my bones.
She never imagined that the late emperor was such a sick lunatic!
He could have clearly told Feng Changye that the Queen Mother was not his biological mother. But he never told her until his death, because if he had told her, Feng Changye would not have been tortured by the Queen Mother!
He even left an imperial edict for the Queen Mother to check and balance Feng Changye. He really wanted to torture Feng Changye until his death!
How could there be such a father in the world?
Si Sangsang abandoned him, so he is going to vent his anger on Si Sangsang's son?
But isn't that his biological son?
Zhu Wuhuan didn't know how she left the General's Mansion. She was in a daze. When she came to her senses, she was already in the carriage, with Feng Changye sitting next to her.
She raised her eyes and saw that handsome face so close to her, and her eyes suddenly felt a little sore.
She recalled the little prince in Queen Zhu's memory, standing in the pavilion on the rockery, his cheek swollen, a tooth knocked out, and crying desperately after being abandoned by his master...
How much similar torture had he endured as a child?
At that time, he was in the general's mansion trying to hug a swan, and was chased all over the yard by the swan. He was obviously an innocent, lively and lovely child. How could they have the heart to hurt him like this?
"emperor--"
Zhu Wuhuan couldn't help but hug Feng Changye, as if he was hugging the little prince who was abused by his mother at the indulgence of his biological father over a decade ago.
"I'm here."
Feng Changye opened his arms and gently embraced the queen who threw herself into his arms.
All the way from the general's mansion to the carriage, the queen's chaotic mind had already made him guess almost exactly what happened that year.
He knew why his father didn't tell him that his biological mother was a time traveler.
Because his father didn't want him to know, he wanted him to be abused and tortured by the current empress dowager.
He finally figured out why he was often injured in the past, but his father seemed to be blind to it and never took him away from the current empress dowager.
It turns out that all of this was condoned by my father...
It was precisely because of the emperor's indulgence that the current empress dowager abused him so unscrupulously, time and time again, countless times...
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